Giant radios invade Liverpool (everyone lives)

The Waves on the Mersey festival in Liverpool, England has concluded. From February 18 through the 22nd five giant radios aired historical documentaries about the famous city broadcast at 87.7 FM. Seventy students produced the docs. The huge radios themselves were situated at museums, churches, and other public places.

On Monday, February 18, the first piece covered the history of The Beatles (of course); next came a production about the Toxteth Race Riots; this was followed by a feature about the Hillsborough soccer crush disaster of 1989; then the May Blitz in 1941; and last but not least Pope John Paul II’s visit in 1982.

Liverpool is situated on the River Mersey . . . so radio “waves” on the Mersey, get it? Race riots, soccer riots, Nazis, Popes, and the Beatles—you’ve got to love Liverpool. And you’ve got to love these radios, too. Here are some more pictures, gleaned from the project’s Facebook page.

About Matthew Lasar

Matthew Lasar is a co-founder of Radio Survivor and its business manager. He is the author of Radio 2.0: Uploading the First Broadcast Medium (http://tinyurl.com/jr8uknk) and teaches history at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Likes: deejays, classical music, Disco, postpunk, cats, free school lunches. Dislikes: money, ideologies, claims that technology will fix everything. Follow him on twitter at @matthewlasar.